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  • Air Force Flight Standards Agency HQ moving to Tinker

    The Air Force Flight Standards Agency headquarters will move to Tinker Air Force Base next year.AFFSA Commander Col. Matthew Yetishefsky said the relocation from two facilities near Will Rogers World Airport will reduce leasing costs, among other advantages.  “This will allow our whole organization

  • Leadership expert addresses 552nd Airmen

    A Pentagon expert on character building and leadership recently spoke to hundreds of 552nd Air Control Wing members about “Professionalism Enhancing Human Capital.”Lt. Col. Kevin Basik, the Air Force representative to the Secretary of Defense’s senior adviser for military professionalism,

  • TINKER HISTORY: Allison J33 engine, unprecedented advancement

    The Allison J33 turbojet was the first mass-produced jet engine used by the military. The J33 was an outgrowth of the turbojet engine developed for aircraft use prior to and during World War II by the British in the form of the Whittle engine.The J33 powered what became known as “jet” aircraft like

  • Emergency exercises scheduled Feb. 27 to March 3

    The annual tornado drill and other simulated emergencies will take place on base between Feb. 27 and March 3. The tornado exercise will include all base personnel, while other scenarios will only affect certain buildings or areas of the base, said Paul Logan, 72nd Air Base Wing inspector general

  • Talking tanker maintenance

    Brig. Gen. Mark Johnson, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex commander, discusses challenges associated with the programmed depot maintenance of the KC-135 Stratotanker with Kristin French, acting assistant secretary of defense (Logistics and Materiel Readiness), during Ms. French’s visit to Tinker

  • Reserve AWACS returns to the Hawaiian Islands

    Reservists from the 513th Air Control Group finished their last day of Sentry Aloha 17-01 on Feb. 3 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, marking a full two weeks of successful missions in one of the best training events in the unit's history.

  • AIR FORCE HISTORY: CMSAF #4 Thomas N. Barnes

    Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Thomas N. Barnes, born Nov. 16, 1930, entered the Air Force in April 1949. In fact, Barnes left Chester, Pa., on an unsegregated train for basic training and arrived to be segregated for basic training. At the time segregation in fact existed in the north, but

  • TINKER HISTORY: AT-6 Texan

    The North American AT-6 “Texan” was a single-engine, basic trainer built for the Army Air Corps during World War II. It also saw service with the U.S. Navy with the designation SNJ (Scout Trainer North American) and with Royal Air Forces’ as the Harvard. The design featured robust main landing gear

  • Tinker leaders pass on wisdom to 8th graders

    Wade Wolfe felt very much at home recently addressing teacher Nathan Lawson’s eighth-grade science class at Jarman Middle School. Even though the vice director of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex is one of the top leaders of a more than 10,000-person workforce delivering $3.4 billion of